David Haye has ruled out facing Manuel Charr in his comeback fight on June 29
in Manchester.

Telegraph Sport understands that Andrew Wawrzyk, the Polish fighter who is ranked No 7 by the World Boxing Association and No 14 by the World Boxing Council, has become the frontrunner to face Haye in his next contest.

Wawrzyk, 25, is unbeaten in 27 contests. Haye, 32, has a record of 26-2, and has won a world heavyweight title and was formerly the world cruiserweight champion.

A camp insider at Hayemaker told Telegraph Sport that Charr "will not be the opponent" when Haye makes his return to the ring with the intention of fighting his way to a mandatory position against the Klitschko brothers, who between them hold the four portions of the world heavyweight title.

Charr has taunted Haye repeatedly on his Twitter account, even creating a poster of himself holding the severed head of the British heavyweight, who held the WBA heavyweight title but lost it to Wladimir Klitschko in Germany in 2011.

The Germany-based Syrian interrupted the post-fight press conference for Haye-Dereck Chisora in July last year to call out Haye, insisting he would fight the Briton down the line.

Charr, 28, used the poster to mock Haye's toe injury after it was broken in the build-up to his world unification fight with Wladimir Klitschko. The Brit cited the injury in the aftermath of his defeat as having hampered him.

Haye hyped his fight with Klitschko by wearing a T-shirt of himself holding the severed heads of Wladimir and his brother Vitali.

Haye then released an iPhone game called 'David Haye's Knockout' in which gamers knock the head off an anonymous Eastern European fighter.

Charr, who lost to Vitali last September, put down in the second round, and stopped on a cut in the fourth round, holds the WBC International Silver heavyweight title.

In spite of BoxRec.com listingHaye and Charr meeting on June 29, the Hayemaker camp insist the fighthas not been signed.